May 14
May 14 this yearin various calendars Akan Kuruyaw Armenian 28 Mareri 1475 Aztec Ochpaniztli 4, 8 Malīnalli Babylonian 26 Nisanu, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Luang, Pepet, Pasah, Menala, Umanis, Paniron, Wraspati of Gumbreg, Uma, Dangu, Duka Bengali 31 Boisakh , BS 1433 Chinese Yang Earth Rat ・Legs Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 3 , Day 28Lixia , 7 days until Xiaoman )Common Era 14 May 2026 CE Coptic 6 Pashons , AM 1742Egyptian 28 Thoth , 2775 NE Ethiopian 6 Genbot, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade III, Quintidi de Floréal de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 14 May , AD 2026 Hebrew 27 Iyar , AM 5786Omer 42 Hindu Revatī ・Prīti Vaiśākha , 1948 SE Dvādaśī , Kṛishna pakṣa of Vaiśākha , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5127 KY ・1,872,709 Icelandic Fimmtudagur, 22 Harpa 2026 Islamic 27 Dhu al-Qi'dah , AH 1447tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W20-4 Japanese 28 Yayoi , Reiwa 8Rikka , 7 days until Shōman ) Julian 1 May , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461175 Korean 28 Yongdal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.13.10.12 5 Zip , 8 Eb Roman Kalendis Maiis , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 24 Ordibehesht , SH 1405 Tibetan 27 nag pa, me pho rta
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Day of the year
May 14 is the 134th day of the year (135th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 231 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1607 – English colonists establish "James Fort", which would become Jamestown, Virginia , the earliest permanent English settlement in the Americas.1608 – The Protestant Union , a coalition of Protestant German states, is founded to defend the rights, land and safety of each member against the Catholic Church and Catholic German states.1610 – Henry IV of France is assassinated by Catholic zealot François Ravaillac , and Louis XIII ascends the throne.1747 – War of the Austrian Succession : A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre .1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation .1800 – The 6th United States Congress recesses , and the process of moving the Federal government of the United States from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. , begins the following day.1804 – William Clark and 42 men depart from Camp Dubois to join Meriwether Lewis at St Charles, Missouri , marking the beginning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ' sMissouri River .1811 – Paraguay : Pedro Juan Caballero , Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor.1832 – The Battle of Stillman's Run , the first battle of the Black Hawk War , is fought.1836 – The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.1842 – The first edition of The Illustrated London News 1857 – Mindon Min is crowned as King of Burma in Mandalay , Burma .1863 – American Civil War : During the Vicksburg campaign , Union forces drive Confederates under Joseph E. Johnston out of Jackson, Mississippi in the Battle of Jackson .1868 – Boshin War : The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward.1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.1878 – The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science , accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas 1900 – Opening of World Amateur championship at the Paris Exposition Universelle , also known as Olympic Games.1913 – Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation , which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller .1915 – The May 14 Revolt takes place in Lisbon, Portugal .1918 – Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands , inaugurates the two-minute silence .1925 – Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 's earliest and best-known novels, is published.1931 – Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings , as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.1935 – The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote.1939 – Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.1940 – World War II : Rotterdam , Netherlands, is bombed by the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany despite a ceasefire, killing about 900 people and destroying the historic city center.1943 – World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland .1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War .1951 – Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.1953 – Approximately 7,100 brewery workers in Milwaukee perform a walkout , marking the start of the 1953 Milwaukee brewery strike .1955 – Cold War : Eight Communist bloc countries , including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact .1961 – Civil rights movement : A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama , before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.1970 – Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of the Red Army Faction .1973 – Skylab 1977 – A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport in Lusaka , Zambia, killing six people.1980 – Salvadoran Civil War : The Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador .1987 – Fijian Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka .1988 – Carrollton bus collision : A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky , hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.2004 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun .2004 – Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Mary Donaldson are married at Copenhagen Cathedral .
2004 – Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4815 crashes into the Amazon rainforest during approach to Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus , Brazil, killing 33 people.
2008 – Battle of Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre between Zenit supporters and Rangers supporters and the Greater Manchester Police ; 39 policemen injured, one police dog injured and 39 arrested.2010 – Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on the STS-132 mission to deliver the first shuttle-launched Russian ISS component — Rassvet Atlantis , before Congress approved STS-135 .2012 – Agni Air Flight CHT crashes in Nepal after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.2021 – China successfully lands Zhurong Mars rover .2022 – Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York .Births
1630 – Katakura Kagenaga , Japanese samurai (died 1681)1652 – Johann Philipp Förtsch , German composer (died 1732)1657 – Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj , Indian(Maratha) emperor (died 1689)1666 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (died 1732)1679 – Peder Horrebow , Danish astronomer and mathematician (died 1764)1699 – Hans Joachim von Zieten , Prussian general (died 1786)1701 – William Emerson , English mathematician and academic (died 1782)1710 – Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (died 1771)1725 – Ludovico Manin , the last Doge of Venice (died 1802)1727 – Thomas Gainsborough , English painter (died 1788)1737 – George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney , Irish-English politician and diplomat, Governor of Grenada (died 1806)1752 – Timothy Dwight IV , American minister, theologian, and academic (died 1817)1752 – Albrecht Thaer , German agronomist and author (died 1828)
1761 – Samuel Dexter , American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War , 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1816)1771 – Robert Owen , Welsh businessman and social reformer (died 1858)1771 – Thomas Wedgwood , English photographer (died 1805)
1781 – Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer , German historian and academic (died 1873)1794 – Fanny Imlay , daughter of British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (died 1816)1814 – Charles Beyer , German-English engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock & Company (died 1876)1817 – Alexander Kaufmann , German poet and educator (died 1893)1820 – James Martin , Irish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of New South Wales (died 1886)1830 – Antonio Annetto Caruana , Maltese archaeologist and author (died 1905)1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz , German mathematician and academic (died 1903)1851 – Anna Laurens Dawes , American author and anti-suffragist (died 1938)1852 – Henri Julien , Canadian illustrator (died 1908)1863 – John Charles Fields , Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (died 1932)1867 – Kurt Eisner , German journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Bavaria (died 1919)1868 – Magnus Hirschfeld , German physician and sexologist (died 1935)1869 – Arthur Rostron , English mariner, captain of the rescue ship Carpathia during the Titanic disaster (died 1940)1872 – Elia Dalla Costa , Italian cardinal (died 1961)1878 – J. L. Wilkinson , American baseball player and manager (died 1964)1879 – Fred Englehardt , American jumper (died 1942)1880 – Wilhelm List , German field marshal (died 1971)1881 – Lionel Hill , Australian politician, 30th Premier of South Australia (died 1963)1881 – George Murray Hulbert , American judge and politician (died 1950)
1885 – Otto Klemperer , German composer and conductor (died 1973)1887 – Ants Kurvits , Estonian general and politician, 10th Estonian Minister of War (died 1943)1888 – Archie Alexander , American mathematician and engineer (died 1958)1893 – Louis Verneuil , French actor and playwright (died 1952)1897 – Sidney Bechet , American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (died 1959)1897 – Ed Ricketts , American biologist and ecologist (died 1948)
1899 – Charlotte Auerbach , German-Scottish folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist (died 1994)1899 – Pierre Victor Auger , French physicist and academic (died 1993)
1899 – Earle Combs , American baseball player and coach (died 1976)
1900 – Hal Borland , American journalist and author (died 1978)1900 – Walter Rehberg , Swiss pianist and composer (died 1957)
1900 – Cai Chang , Chinese first leader of All-China Women's Federation (died 1990)
1900 – Leo Smit , Dutch pianist and composer (died 1943)
1900 – Edgar Wind , German-English historian, author, and academic (died 1971) 1901 – Robert Ritter , German psychologist and physician (died 1951)1903 – Billie Dove , American actress (died 1997)1904 – Hans Albert Einstein , Swiss-American engineer and educator (died 1973)1904 – Marcel Junod , Swiss physician and anesthesiologist (died 1961)
1905 – Jean Daniélou , French cardinal and theologian (died 1974)1905 – Herbert Morrison , American journalist (died 1989)
1905 – Antonio Berni , Argentinian painter, illustrator, and engraver (died 1981)
1907 – Ayub Khan , Pakistani general and politician, 2nd President of Pakistan (died 1974)1907 – Johnny Moss , gambler and professional poker player, first winner of the World Series of Poker (died 1995)
1910 – Ne Win , Burmese army general and politician, 4th President of Burma (died 2002)1914 – Gul Khan Nasir , Pakistani journalist, poet, and politician (died 1983)1914 – William Tutte , British codebreaker and mathematician (died 2002)
1916 – Robert F. Christy , Canadian-American physicist and astronomer (died 2012)1916 – Marco Zanuso , Italian architect and designer (died 2001)
1917 – Lou Harrison , American composer and critic (died 2003)1921 – Richard Deacon , American actor (died 1984)1922 – Franjo Tuđman , Croatian historian and politician, 1st President of Croatia (died 1999)1923 – Josette Molland , artist, French Resistance member, and Holocaust survivor (died 2019)1923 – Adnan Pachachi , Iraqi politician, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2019)
1923 – Mrinal Sen , Bangladeshi-Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2018)
1925 – Sophie Kurys , American baseball player (died 2013)1925 – Patrice Munsel , American soprano and actress (died 2016)
1925 – Oona O'Neill , British actress (died 1991)
1926 – Eric Morecambe , English comedian and actor (died 1984)1927 – Herbert W. Franke , Austrian scientist and author (died 2022)1928 – Frederik H. Kreuger , Dutch engineer, author, and academic (died 2015)1929 – Barbara Branden , Canadian-American author (died 2013)1929 – Henry McGee , English actor and singer (died 2006)
1929 – Gump Worsley , Canadian ice hockey player (died 2007)
1930 – William James , Australian general and physician (died 2015)1931 – Alvin Lucier , American composer and academic (died 2021)1933 – Siân Phillips , Welsh actress and singer1935 – Ethel Johnson , American professional wrestler (died 2018)1936 – Bobby Darin , American singer-songwriter and actor (died 1973)1936 – Dick Howser , American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1987)
1937 – Vic Flick , English guitarist (died 2024)1940 – H. Jones , English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1982)1942 – Byron Dorgan , American lawyer and politician
1942 – Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green , English businessman and politician (died 2014)
1942 – Tony Pérez , Cuban-American baseball player and manager
1943 – Jack Bruce , Scottish-English singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2014)1943 – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson , Icelandic academic and politician, 5th President of Iceland
1943 – Eddie Low , New Zealand country singer and musician (died 2024)
1944 – Gene Cornish , Canadian-American guitarist1944 – George Lucas , American director, producer, and screenwriter, founded Lucasfilm
1944 – David Kelly , Welsh scientist (died 2003)
1945 – Francesca Annis , English actress1945 – Yochanan Vollach , Israeli footballer
1947 – Ana Martín , Mexican actress, singer, producer and former model (Miss Mexico 1963 )1947 – Jon Landau , American music critic and record producer
1948 – Bob Woolmer , Indian-English cricketer and coach (died 2007)1949 – Jim Folsom Jr. , American politician, 50th Governor of Alabama 1952 – David Byrne , Scottish-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor1952 – Michael Fallon , Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Defence
1952 – Donald R. McMonagle , American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1952 – Robert Zemeckis , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1953 – Tom Cochrane , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist1955 – Zofija Mazej Kukovič , Slovenian electrical engineer and minister of health 2007–81955 – Dennis Martínez , Nicaraguan baseball player and coach1955 – Big Van Vader , American wrestler and football player (died 2018)
1956 – Hazel Blears , English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 1956 – Steve Hogarth , English singer-songwriter and keyboardist
1958 – Christine Brennan , American journalist and author1958 – Rudy Pérez , Cuban-born American composer and music producer
1959 – Carlisle Best , Barbadian cricketer1959 – Patrick Bruel , French actor, singer, and poker player
1959 – Robert Greene , American author and translator
1959 – Rick Vaive , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1959 – Heather Wheeler , English politician
1960 – Anne Clark , English singer-songwriter and poet1960 – Frank Nobilo , New Zealand golfer
1960 – Ronan Tynan , Irish tenor
1961 – Tim Roth , English actor and director1961 – Alain Vigneault , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1962 – Ian Astbury , English-Canadian singer-songwriter1962 – C.C. DeVille , American guitarist, songwriter, and actor
1962 – Danny Huston , Italian-American actor and director
1963 – Pat Borders , American baseball player and coach1964 – Suzy Kolber , American sportscaster and producer1964 – Alan McIndoe , Australian rugby league player
1966 – Mike Inez , American rock bass player and songwriter1966 – Fab Morvan , French singer-songwriter, dancer and model
1966 – Raphael Saadiq , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1967 – Tony Siragusa , American football player and journalist (died 2022)1968 – Greg Davies , Welsh actor, comedian, writer and presenter1969 – Cate Blanchett , Australian actress1969 – Sabine Schmitz , German race car driver and sportscaster (died 2021)
1970 – Peter Filandia , Australian footballer1971 – Sofia Coppola , American director, producer, and screenwriter1971 – Martin Reim , Estonian footballer and manager
1972 – Ike Moriz , German-South African singer-songwriter, producer and actor1972 – Kirstjen Nielsen , American attorney, 6th United States Secretary of Homeland Security
1973 – Natalie Appleton , Canadian singer and actress1973 – Fraser Nelson , Scottish journalist
1975 – Gulmurod Khalimov , Tajikistani police commander turned Islamic State mercenary outlaw1975 – Nicki Sørensen , Danish cyclist1976 – Hunter Burgan , American multi-instrumentalist and bassist of rock band AFI 1976 – Martine McCutcheon , English actress and singer1977 – Roy Halladay , American baseball player (died 2017)1977 – Ada Nicodemou , Australian actress
1978 – Brent Harvey , Australian footballer1978 – Eddie House , American basketball player
1979 – Dan Auerbach , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer1979 – Clinton Morrison , Irish international footballer
1980 – Júlia Sebestyén , Hungarian figure skater1981 – Pranav Mistry , Indian computer scientist, invented SixthSense 1983 – Anahí , Mexican singer-songwriter, producer, and actress1983 – Frank Gore , American football player
1983 – Tatenda Taibu , Zimbabwean cricketer
1983 – Amber Tamblyn , American actress, author, model, director
1984 – Gary Ablett, Jr. , Australian footballer1984 – Olly Murs , English singer-songwriter
1984 – Mark Zuckerberg , American computer programmer and businessman, co-founder of Facebook
1985 – Dustin Lynch , American singer-songwriter1985 – Sam Perrett , New Zealand rugby league player
1985 – Zack Ryder , American wrestler
1986 – Clay Matthews III , American football player1987 – François Steyn , South African rugby player1989 – Rob Gronkowski , American football player1993 – Miranda Cosgrove , American actress and singer1993 – Kyle Freeland , American baseball player
1993 – Kristina Mladenovic , French tennis player
1994 – Marquinhos , Brazilian footballer1994 – Pernille Blume , Danish swimmer
1994 – Bronte Campbell , Malawian-Australian swimmer
1995 – Rose Lavelle , American soccer player1996 – Blake Brockington , American trans man and activist (died 2015)1996 – Martin Garrix , Dutch DJ
1996 – Pokimane , Moroccan-Canadian internet personality
1997 – Rúben Dias , Portuguese footballer2001 – Jack Hughes , American hockey player2002 – Zach Edey , Canadian basketball playerDeaths
1603 – Magnus II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (born 1543)1608 – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (born 1543)1610 – Henry IV of France (born 1553)1643 – Louis XIII of France (born 1601)1649 – Friedrich Spanheim , Swiss theologian and academic (born 1600)1667 – Georges de Scudéry , French author, poet, and playwright (born 1601)1688 – Antoine Furetière , French scholar, lexicographer, and author (born 1619)1754 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée , French playwright and producer (born 1692)1761 – Thomas Simpson , English mathematician and academic (born 1710)1847 – Fanny Hensel , German pianist and composer (born 1805)1860 – Ludwig Bechstein , German author (born 1801)1873 – Gideon Brecher , Austrian physician and author (born 1797)1878 – Ōkubo Toshimichi , Japanese samurai and politician (born 1830)1881 – Mary Seacole , Jamaican-English nurse and author (born 1805)1889 – Volney Howard , American lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1809)1893 – Ernst Kummer , German mathematician and academic (born 1810)1906 – Carl Schurz , German-American general, journalist, and politician, 13th United States Secretary of the Interior (born 1829)1912 – Frederik VIII of Denmark (born 1843)1912 – August Strindberg , Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist (born 1849)
1918 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr. , American journalist and publisher (born 1841)1919 – Henry J. Heinz , American businessman, founded the H. J. Heinz Company (born 1844)1923 – N. G. Chandavarkar , Indian jurist and politician (born 1855)1923 – Charles de Freycinet , French engineer and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of France (born 1828)
1931 – David Belasco , American director, producer, and playwright (born 1853)1934 – Lou Criger , American baseball player and manager (born 1872)1935 – Magnus Hirschfeld , German physician and sexologist (born 1868)1936 – Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby , English field marshal and diplomat, British High Commissioner in Egypt (born 1861)1940 – Emma Goldman , Lithuanian author and activist (born 1869)1940 – Menno ter Braak , Dutch author (born 1902)
1943 – Henri La Fontaine , Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854)1945 – Heber J. Grant , American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1856)1945 – Wolfgang Lüth , Latvian-German captain (born 1913)
1945 – Isis Pogson , English astronomer and meteorologist (born 1852)
1953 – Yasuo Kuniyoshi , American painter and photographer (born 1893)1954 – Heinz Guderian , Prussian-German general (born 1888)1956 – Joan Malleson , English physician (born 1889)1957 – Marie Vassilieff , Russian-French painter (born 1884)1959 – Sidney Bechet , American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (born 1897)1959 – Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (born 1862)
1960 – Lucrezia Bori , Spanish soprano and actress (born 1887)1962 – Florence Auer , American actress and screenwriter (born 1880)1965 – Frances Perkins , American workers-rights advocate, U.S. Secretary of Labor (born 1880)1968 – Husband E. Kimmel , American admiral (born 1882)1969 – Enid Bennett , Australian-American actress (born 1893)1969 – Frederick Lane , Australian swimmer (born 1888)
1970 – Billie Burke , American actress and singer (born 1884)1973 – Jean Gebser , German linguist, philosopher, and poet (born 1905)1976 – Keith Relf , English singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and producer (born 1943)1979 – Jean Rhys , Dominican-English novelist (born 1890)1980 – Hugh Griffith , Welsh actor (born 1912)1982 – Hugh Beaumont , American actor (born 1909)1983 – Roger J. Traynor , American academic and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of California (born 1900)1983 – Miguel Alemán Valdés , Mexican politician, 46th President of Mexico (born 1900)
1984 – Ted Hicks , Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (born 1910)1984 – Walter Rauff , German SS officer (born 1906)
1987 – Rita Hayworth , American actress and dancer (born 1918)1987 – Vitomil Zupan , Slovenian poet and playwright (born 1914)
1988 – Willem Drees , Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948–1958) (born 1886)1991 – Aladár Gerevich , Hungarian fencer (born 1910)1991 – Jiang Qing , Chinese revolutionary, actress, and politician, member of the Gang of Four (born 1914)
1992 – Nie Rongzhen , Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing (born 1899)1993 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr. , American journalist and publisher (born 1908)1994 – Cihat Arman , Turkish footballer and manager (born 1915)1994 – W. Graham Claytor Jr. , American businessman, lieutenant, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1914)
1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen , American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)1997 – Harry Blackstone Jr. , American magician and author (born 1934)1997 – Boris Parsadanian , Armenian-Estonian violinist and composer (born 1925)
1998 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas , American journalist and environmentalist (born 1890)1998 – Frank Sinatra , American singer and actor (born 1915)
2000 – Keizō Obuchi , Japanese politician, 84th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1937)2001 – Paul Bénichou , French writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian (born 1908)2001 – Gil Langley , Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (born 1919)
2003 – Dave DeBusschere , American basketball player and coach (born 1940)2003 – Wendy Hiller , English actress (born 1912)
2003 – Robert Stack , American actor and producer (born 1919)
2004 – Anna Lee , English-American actress (born 1913)2005 – Jimmy Martin , American musician (born 1927)2006 – Lew Anderson , American actor and saxophonist (born 1922)2006 – Stanley Kunitz , American poet and translator (born 1905)
2006 – Eva Norvind , Mexican actress, director, and producer (born 1944)
2007 – Mary Scheier , American sculptor and educator (born 1908)2007 – Ülo Jõgi , Estonian historian and author (born 1921)
2010 – Frank J. Dodd , American businessman and politician, president of the New Jersey Senate (born 1938)2010 – Norman Hand , American football player (born 1972)
2010 – Goh Keng Swee , Singaporean soldier and politician, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (born 1918)
2012 – Ernst Hinterberger , Austrian author and screenwriter (born 1931)2012 – Mario Trejo , Argentinian poet, playwright, and journalist (born 1926)
2013 – Wayne Brown , American accountant and politician, 14th Mayor of Mesa (born 1936)2013 – Arsen Chilingaryan , Armenian footballer and manager (born 1962)
2013 – Asghar Ali Engineer , Indian author and activist (born 1939)
2013 – Ray Guy , Canadian journalist (born 1939)
2014 – Jeffrey Kruger , English-American businessman (born 1931)2014 – Emanuel Raymond Lewis , American librarian and author (born 1928)
2014 – Morvin Simon , New Zealand historian, composer, and conductor (born 1944)
2015 – B.B. King , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1925)2015 – Micheál O'Brien , Irish footballer and hurler (born 1923)
2015 – Stanton J. Peale , American astrophysicist and academic (born 1937)
2015 – Franz Wright , Austrian-American poet and translator (born 1953)
2016 – Darwyn Cooke , American comic book writer and artist (born 1962)2017 – Powers Boothe , American actor (born 1948)2018 – Tom Wolfe , American author (born 1931)2019 – Tim Conway , American actor, writer, and comedian (born 1933)2019 – Grumpy Cat , American cat and internet meme celebrity (born 2012)
2023 – Doyle Brunson , American poker player (born 1933)2023 – Samantha Weinstein , Canadian actress (born 1995)
2024 – Don Perlin , American comic book artist, writer, and editor (born 1929)2024 – Netiporn Sanesangkhom , Thai political activist (born 1995)
2026 – Alan Rothwell , English actor (born 1937)2026 – Hans van Houwelingen , Dutch mathematician and professor emeritus of medical statistics (born 1945)